title. i took a few years off of all social media, including lemmygrad, but i could have sworn there was such a community back when i frequented lemmygrad before the break. i found one major post on the topic from 3 years ago and several comments that lead to errors, which i assume is because the posts they were under were deleted or removed. what exactly is the history there? if the community was banned or removed what was the reasoning?
furthermore, just out of curiosity, what are people’s opinions on psychiatry, psychology, and the anti-psychiatry movement? i’ve been doing a lot of thinking and some research on all three as it relates to the development of capitalism and socialism, as well as my own personal experience. to me it seems to be another case in which a marxist framework is necessary to synthesize psychiatry/psychology and anti-psychiatry to come to a fundamentally closer approximation to the truth. topics such as where the line should be drawn between behavioral/biological conditions and the usage/role of psychiatric medication seem to be particularly hot button issues.
Mental health fields, like any other fields really, suffered greatly due to de-communization. And naturally a lot of it did get liberalized, pill pushers are a real thing, over-prescription is a real issue, improper diagnosis, weaponized use of psychiatric wards, the way treatment approaches is shaped will of course be shaped by a Capitalist Society, which at best won’t kill their patients: because they know it’s better to keep the customer alive.
Which is what Patients are under capitalism, they’re Customers, if there’s no socialized medicine. One of the biggest blunders that’s been ignored by psychoanalysts is well the fact that our society is structured to be unhealthy and how can an unhealthy society produce a healthy mind?
As a result there’s a ton of misconceptions related to the field of mental issues, some valid, some are reactionary.
I’ve seen plenty of people claim that my ADHD can be cured by the ways of Stoicism and Disciplinary action and that’s bullshit, it’s a neurological condition. Ironically I’m more disciplined than most people who tell me I need to be Disciplined, because I’ve spent 20+ years bumbling around managing my disorder by sheer force of will.
Ironically, now that people who don’t have ADHD see how well I’m doing they think they can replicate my improvements, in productivity or life in general, by consuming the same substances. That’s not going to work. Those meds tend to have the opposite effect on those who don’t have the disorder. You’re essentially giving yourself like a version of ADHD by doing that, which is why it’s used as recreational, induced hyperactivity, impulsivity, restlessness.
But you know what? Psychiatry might be able to develop a more permanent cure to my conditions, capitalism won’t allow it to happen
Capitalism also won’t allow me to go further into detail, because I got to make bread somehow and so if i really did the research I’d want to put that in a book and sell it, because i want to eat. And it’s not like I’d give a shit if people bought the book or not. I’d make it freely avaiable, but there’s only so much unpaid labor I’m willing to do.
I remember it, they were pretty prolific and pretty aggressive poster, and any argument not even propsychiatry but sceptical of antipsychiatry were attacked by them. And the entire topic of antipsychiatry just basically disappeared after that person went away, so it was really an case of how one person can artifically pump some topic in community.
About meritum, despite having some point on topic it was clear that this person bordered on total denial which don’t strike me as fair but maybe i’m biased as someone who got real help from psychiatrist. I just don’t think it’s correct to completely disavow this entire field of medicine over some abuses and mistakes.
Yeah there was such a thing, made by a user who was very much against standard psychiatry/psychology
I think the user is gone from the grad now
Edit: I see the user was from Lemmy actually and got banned from there, so if wasn’t even us who did it lol
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This sounds like the start to a creepypasta lol. But what probably happened is when you ban someone you get the choice (on lemmy) to also delete their content, and depending on the version of lemmy you are on this deletes the communities they created or are head mod in as well. Not sure I like how wide of a net the delete content button does but that’s how it is (it’s useful against spammers and trolls that you know can be safely purged)
hahaha there’s a spoooky ghost haunting the modlog…
but no that makes total sense, both to explain what happened and in terms of the rationale for being able to delete a banned user’s content. thanks for explaining that!
I made the initial thread in the peoples court to discuss my criticisms of that community and it ended in it being removed.
Its been a while and I cant find the initial thread for it.
If I remember right the main critiques I had was that 90% of the content was done by one poster, and that one poster was using quasi-social dwarnist/nazi adjacent ideology in a lot of their reasoning.
They also gave general conspiracy theory nonsense related to anti-vaccines and autism being linked to dubious things.
Yeah.
A while back, there was an anti-psychiatry community. Looking through the modlog I couldn’t find reasons for why the community was banned, but the user who ran it was banned and so it got removed. Reasons for banning the user apparently were constant ableism, being too combative with other users regarding anti-psychiatry.
Since I haven’t spent much time researching psychiatry I can’t really speak on it so maybe other comrades can help?
thanks for looking through the modlog for me! i don’t even know how to do that, so that’s useful
I’m just speaking for myself personally but i don’t like psyche altering substances, regardless whether they are prescribed or not. I live a pretty sober lifestyle. I stay away from drugs and i drink very little alcohol, mainly because i prefer to feel my feelings as they are, unaltered and undulled, whether they are negative or positive. I think of it like a pain response: if you are feeling pain it’s an indicator, a signal from your body, and it might be better to pay attention to it rather than shut it off (within reason). But that’s just a personal choice. If other people find medication or self-medication helpful that isn’t any of my business.
As for therapy, it can be helpful for sure, and for some people it genuinely makes their life better. But we also have to recognize that there is now an entire industry built around it with a lot of money involved which creates certain incentives. And to some extent the necessity for therapy has grown out of the fact that we as humans need community and social interaction, we need family and friends to keep us emotionally and psychologically healthy. Unfortunately modern lifestyles under capitalism are often alienating and isolating and this creates a need for a replacement. And of course that replacement has been commoditized as a paid service.
So yeah, psychiatry as a whole, i’m not against it. It’s just something we have to analyze critically.
i think there’s a lot of insight to reflect on here. the idea that (good) therapy is useful within the context of growing up in class society, but that it may not be necessary if people had strong, healthy relationships with others and their community is something that i’ve thought a lot about in the past week.
and the commodification is also a very important aspect, both as it relates to therapy but also psychiatry. just like any commodification of what should be basic public services, one can never be truly certain as to whether the primary reasoning behind any treatment is profit or health/science, when the two are diametrically opposed. therefore skepticism of bourgeois science and medical practice is not only rational but necessary, while also accepting its progressive nature. it can just be a very challenging thing to balance, i think.
as far as it relates to your sober lifestyle, that’s really interesting and totally makes sense to me: feelings are signals that you need to process something, or act in some way, and dulling those senses (especially long-term) can even be dangerous in the right circumstance. personally i’ve found mind-altering substances useful both as coping mechanisms but also just as ways to know what it’s like to experience a lack of chronic mental health symptoms, which then gives my unaltered mind insight as to what the underlying mechanisms for those symptoms may or may not be.
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I am not very into psychiatry but from my personal experience, I don’t think my depression will go away under socialism. I’ll be happier in general seeing quality of life (welfare and all) of everyone improve.
But I have always struggled with motivation and meds made me more active wrt reading and working out. I dont think that’ll change.
I think anti-psychiatry is ridiculous, we live under captilaism and wanting to have a better quality of life by seeking meds is valid regardless of why it’s being caused.
There are many many cases of people who have faced abuse by the psychiatric system. If you have a disorder that is deemed ‘bad enough’ like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder or have a habit of self harming psychiatrists will no longer see you as a human being with a right to choose what happens to your body. This is why these people and their loved ones become anti-psychiatry.
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i think the question that anti-psychiatry (at least, the part of it that seems useful) is asking isn’t whether or not your depression would magically go away under socialism, but rather if you would have developed depression in the first place had you always lived under a socialist mode of production, or perhaps communism. and, i think that’s a much more challenging question to answer. what do you think?
I can’t say. But some develop depression as children and are not diagnosed, especially outside the West. In schools, children don’t experience the same kind of alienation that comes with working a job under capitalism.
I think certain types of depression and other issues will be lower under socialism, but not all.
that’s definitely true, but it’s also true that the abolition of all exploitative class relationships necessitates the abolition of patriarchy, a long-standing system that has a deep and self-evident effect on the raising of children given the centrality of the patriarchal family unit.
i’ll also say that, while children (who are not forced into labor, many are) are not exploited for their labor in school, that doesn’t necessarily mean that school is not alienating to them under capitalism. schools are modeled off of prisons, and their primary function is as a daycare for children rather than to optimally raise and teach children. just think: would schools be so underfunded and understaffed in a better world, and what effect would that have on the children in them?
finally, i think there’s a good argument for saying that while children may not directly feel the effects of alienation due to exploited labor, they do so indirectly. not only in the context of schools, but in the context of the patriarchal family unit: in the same way that men use the patriarchal family as a means to exploit women in service of venting their frustration at being exploited at work, i feel that this must have a negative effect on children from a very early age as well. it is not a situation conducive to healthy and loving familial relationships imo
I remember big arguments about that stuff but not the specifics. IMHO, therapy can work for some people, and fail for others. Same way with physiological treatments. Going straight to drugs for every problem is what the capitalist pharmaceutical industry would love for you to do. And I see that option thrown at you the SECOND to mention a potential neurological condition. This leads to a lot of over prescriptions and misdiagnosis. People coming out worse then going in. It yields a distrust in the system that has a rebound effect of causing some people to say it’s ALL bad. Same with therapy. “It didn’t work for me so it’s all bad.”
IMO, both of those sentiments are reactionary. The brain and the human thought process is super complicated. We BARELY understand it. We may know a ton more now then every before, but it’s still barely scratching the surface. And while just throwing SSRIs at everything right out of the gate is truly not a great idea, so is saying we shouldn’t do anything.
Same with therapy. Western therapy is designed to mitigate people realizing that most of their issues with anxiety and depression are the system they live in. So western therapy is mainly about how to cope with the system and accept that you can’t change it so why try? So when you problem is related to the system, or a straight up neurological issues, therapy isn’t going to do a whole lot for you. That being said, I know several people that have had issues within themselves that have done therapy and got a lot of help.
The main issue is simply that these things will never be used correctly under capitalism. In a sane society these things are used to treat and cure real issues. In a capitalist system they are just ways to use people to make profit. Fixing an issue is a byproduct of you making rich people richer. And actually curing people is a taboo cause you don’t get more money out of a cured patient. Don’t fix a joint when you can just give them cortisone injections for pain for the rest of their life. Don’t try different medications that can potentially lead to long term cures for neurological conditions. Just give them shit that suppresses the symptoms, that they have to take for the rest of their life. But just because capitalism ruins something, doesn’t mean we should simply abandon it outright.
Mental health is inseparable from worldview, so it gets co-opted in various ways to push the dominant ideology and that means a corralling effect under capitalism; if you stand out, it’s meant to draw you back in and functioning “appropriately” under its world model.
But that doesn’t mean all of the disorders (which are essentially repeating clusters of behavior and cognition brought under a specific label) are made up, or aren’t observing real things. It just means that the way those labels get applied and categorized is tainted by the dominant model. A person who has chronic anxiety isn’t bothered by this because capitalism, but because they want to stop feeling that way all the time. But capitalism could very well be the cause for them in various ways. But then there are things like ADHD which are shown to be at least partly the brain itself, not just a reaction to the environment. And there is also the transition aspect of things to keep in mind. If capitalism was replaced with fully automated luxury gay space communism tomorrow, there’d still be people acting like disorder categorizations that developed under capitalism and many of them would still be suffering in various ways because the ingrained behaviors and thought processes and belief systems are still there.
But then there are things like ADHD which are shown to be at least partly the brain itself, not just a reaction to the environment.
i think there’s a lot of truth to your post, but this in particular is something i want to challenge because it is a pillar of bourgeois psychiatry.
as dialectical materialists, we know that all things are subject to change. but, out of all of the organs and systems of the human body nothing is as subject to change as the brain. neuroplasticity is backed up by plenty of research and is a scientific fact: if you haven’t read norman doidge’s “the brain that changes itself” i would highly recommend it, there are several incredible stories.
and so, pointing to the fact that some disorders are associated with physical changes in the brain is not the slam dunk you might think it is. correlation does not equal causation. for example, i was recently researching the neurobiology of those with bipolar disorder, and while there is a lot of variance in how the disorder presents both physiologically and behaviorally, it’s commonly accepted that those with bipolar disorder are more likely to have less-developed regions of the brain associated with emotional regulation, and that those regions of the brain are less likely to be as connected to other regions of the brain.
neurons that fire together wire together, but by the same token neurons that don’t fire together don’t wire together. and so, it is perfectly plausible to suggest the hypothesis that, in the case of bipolar disorder, a lack of emotional regulation skills (especially in early life) leads to a less-developed and interconnected brain, which can then lead to what we call bipolar disorder. this may or may not be true, but it is a hypothesis worth testing. bourgeois psychiatry does not even consider testing this hypothesis, its mechanical materialist framework ignores the fact of neuroplasticity and still treats the brain as immutable, as something primarily derived from DNA, if not entirely. in addition to the fact that the profit motive gives them no material incentive to test such a hypothesis.
like all bourgeois science, i think bourgeois psychiatry is both fundamentally progressive and fundamentally flawed, it’s just a matter of piecing which parts are which. i feel like this, the idea that physical changes or abnormalities in the brain are necessarily inherent to someone’s genes, and furthermore that these changes are necessarily immutable (i.e. irreversible), is a fundamental flaw because it flies in the face of basic neurobiological research. it is an idea worth challenging, but it will never get challenged by bourgeois psychiatry.
I sort of agree and disagree. That bourgeois science and psychology is not informed by a dialectical materialist view is a problem. That part I 100% agree with and I don’t think it’s necessarily obvious at a glance to what extent all of the consequences of this are.
the idea that physical changes or abnormalities in the brain are necessarily inherent to someone’s genes, and furthermore that these changes are necessarily immutable (i.e. irreversible), is a fundamental flaw because it flies in the face of basic neurobiological research. it is an idea worth challenging, but it will never get challenged by bourgeois psychiatry.
Well, this is a complicated thing to get into, isn’t it? First, in my impression of it, even bourgeois science does not think it is immutable, but rather liberalism and individualism blanch at the idea of forcing someone to “not be themself” in matters of personality and the like. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing while we’re stuck under a system like capitalism because if liberalism went full “we can change your brain”, what happens? “Radicals” get targeted for making changes. Historically marginalized groups in mental health (such as those with autism) get targeted for making changes. Predispositions which may not be inherently a bad thing, but get associated with the development of disorders, could get targeted and then we’re starting to get into eugenics-like territory.
I don’t think there’s any denying that predispositions are a thing and that types of them get passed down genetically. To what extent this informs anything we call a mental health disorder in modern day is more difficult to say. Partly because it’s such a touchy subject to be getting into people’s behavior, personality, and so on. If somebody has a genetic condition that effects them physically but not mentally in a noticeable way, people don’t tend to bat an eye about the implications of that in the same way because the tendency to view the brain and body as separate means we’re just talking about the mechanical part, not the “soul” part. It may be this is a very flawed view of a human being, but that’s what tends to happen.
I think I have mentioned this on here before, but I remember reading years back about this person who grew up in a communal culture, who “heard voices” (in the sense associated with schizophrenia) but for them the voices were helpful and supportive. It’s been so long, I don’t even know where I’d begin with finding the source, so take it with a grain of salt. But I bring it up because it is a good example of how predisposition does not mean deterministic in outcomes.
That said, the reason I used ADHD as an example is because the research makes me doubtful that an ADHD person can simply apply therapy tactics and “fix” their brain. It is theoretically possible from the dialectical materialism view of change that the brain (perhaps with some future technology/medicine) could somehow be changed sufficiently in order to make the symptoms permanently go away, but there are more complicated questions tied up in that, like: would the person still be the same in personality or would they seem like a different person now and what are the ethical and societal implications of this? Is it possible to isolate the areas that cause them abnormal distress and heal those without impacting other areas of cognition? What even is abnormal distress under a system like this?
It gets fucky fast and I don’t trust the shameless fascists standing nearby the hokey liberals, salivating over the idea of eugenics and the like.
well, thankfully i don’t think it’s possible to 100% agree on anything or else we would be the same person! but, i do want to continue to challenge some of your assumptions
First, in my impression of it, even bourgeois science does not think it is immutable
see, but the example i provided you of the neurobiology of bipolar disorder clearly and directly demonstrates bourgeois psychiatry’s view that the brain is immutable. the fact of emotional dysregulation in bipolar is in interpreted as though the patient was necessarily born with this brain abnormality, and furthermore that this brain abnormality will necessarily persist for the entirety of the patient’s life, i.e. that it is immutable. again, this flies in the fact of neuroplasticity, i.e. the fact that our experiences in life literally change the physical structures of the brain. why isn’t there, for example, longitudinal research that finds those with a high risk of developing bipolar at a young age (whether as dictated by genes, material circumstance, or both), conducts regular brain scans to check the development of the brain, and correlates differences in development with differences in experiences of the patients? this is just one example, and it’s not like i’m a scientist or a researcher, but in my research i’ve found no such studies conducted, because the brain is seen as a mechanistic machine.
but rather liberalism and individualism blanch at the idea of forcing someone to “not be themself” in matters of personality and the like.
this is an interesting idea, but is this actually supported by the way that those with neurodivergence, disability and extreme mental disorders are typically treated under liberal societies? i certainly don’t think so, even though this is a claim that liberalism constantly makes. disability is literally the extent to which those different from the norm (for a variety of reasons) are excluded from society. those who experience things that are outside the realm of “normal” or “rational” are not accepted but controlled by liberal society. the way in which medication treats symptoms (often poorly) instead of underlying problems (brain structure) is itself a rejection of neurodivergence imo: people are reigned in from their extreme experience instead of being prompted to explore it and identify why they experienced something in the first place. i’m not saying there’s absolutely no place for medication, but in bourgeois psychiatry it is seen as a long-term solution instead of a tool to help facilitate actual healing and brain development.
That said, the reason I used ADHD as an example is because the research makes me doubtful that an ADHD person can simply apply therapy tactics and “fix” their brain.
exactly what research gives you this impression and why? i’ve honestly done very little research so far, but have found several examples of people with conditions that are typically considered permanent fully recovering.
i think it makes sense for you to have reticence towards the liberal anti-psychiatry movement, in that it totally rejects everything in liberal psychiatry and is therefore open towards eugenicist claims towards those with autism, for example. but, i think the way in which those with disability and neurodivergence are treated under liberal society have much the same problem: leaving those on the fringes with at best extreme hardship and at worst death is eugenicist to me too. furthermore, i don’t claim that all examples of permanent neurodivergence as dictated by liberal psychiatry are actually impermanent and treatable, just that some are. and, the only way to actually distinguish that difference is to conduct socialist research that bourgeois psychiatry is incapable of conducting.
there are some anti-psychiatry movements i deplore, and others i admire. my relationship with psychiatry and psychology is complicated and messy, given how embedded i am with it at different levels, lol.
And you might be familiar, but the Socialist Patient’s Collective, or SPK for short, provided a marxist critique of capitalism and psychiatry with some really cutting stuff in it. my favourite exerpt (translated from German elsewhere online + emphasis is mine):
Illness is the essential condition, the presupposition and the result of this capitalist process of production. The capitalist production process is at the same time a process that destroys life. It continuously destroys life and produces capital. Capitalism is dominated by capital’s primary need of accumulation (Marx). *Illness is the expression of the life-destroying power of capital. Illness is collectively produced: that is, in so far as the worker creates capital in the work process, which encounters him as an alien force, he collectively produces his own isolation. It’s therefore only logical that healthcare produced by capitalism perpetuates this isolation in that it doesn’t treat these symptoms as collective but rather treats them as individual bad luck, fault, and failure. *However, capitalism produces, in the form of illness, the most dangerous threat to itself. Therefore it has to fight against the progressive moment in illness with its heaviest weapons : the healthcare system, the legal system, the police.
Psychiatric medication saved my life. Therapy on the other hand was a complete waste of time. My brother on the third hand enjoys therapy a lot.
It is natural to have grievances with the way psychiatry and psychology are practiced under capitalism, but sometimes it feels like some people here let go of materialism just to “stick it to the man” in various topics.
Not saying you OP are one of those btw
thanks for the clarification! i’m really trying to take a measured approach that incorporates everyone’s experiences with bourgeois psychiatry, while being as critical and curious as possible
as far as your own personal experience, i feel like there is a huge amount of variance in the way that mental health is treated in western capitalist societies. i’ve seen many psychiatrists, and many therapists. for both, some were so horrible that simply meeting with them made me feel considerably worse, and some of them were so great that they totally changed my life.
IME, psychiatry is absolute trash. The only reason I’ve kept going back is because if I’m not in some type of mental health treatment, they use it as another excuse to make me fail my disability benefit assessments/appeals. You would think being in cancer treatment, recovering from a stroke, being partially sighted and all my other physical shit would be enough to qualify for disability benefits, but nope. If I’m not receiving mental health treatment too, I will lose the appeal.
Firstly what is the point? Therapy wouldn’t cure my problems even if it was good therapy. But as it happens, NHS therapy is shit. I’ve been on the waiting list for up to 5 years at a time for treatment, and then I get some shit like DBT, which consisted of a silly little girl just out of college telling me to make lists of why I shouldn’t feel suicidal, depressed and anxious, and whenever I do feel depressed, suicidal and anxious, just read the lists and then I will feel fine! Surprisingly this ground-breaking therapy did not work.
I had one therapy, just after making a suicide attempt, which consisted of an NHS hippie therapist, dressed in long flowing purple robes, telling me to buy a copy of the New Age book The Secret, about the law of attraction, and use it to attract whatever I want into my life. Then I won’t be depressed any more. Again, didn’t work, and is this really suitable therapy for someone who’s just got out of intensive care after a suicide attempt?
My most recent therapist apparently does EDMR, and I asked for that. She refused to give it on the grounds that I’m still in a bad life situation and EDMR is only for people who aren’t in that situation any more. So she spent my sessions doing a shitty guided meditation and making me draw pictures of how I feel each week. Utterly useless trash. Literally just box-checking so she can get her paycheque and I can use the fact I’m in therapy as grounds for my benefit appeal. And when I told her her therapy wasn’t helping me and I wanted to quit, she said (in fear of losing her paycheque) that if I quit she would inform the DWP so I would fail my benefit appeal. I pointed out that that would leave me permanently destitute and I’d end up homeless, and she didn’t care at all. She said she’d just give me a leaflet for a homeless shelter. Just an evil person.
i’m sorry to hear that you’ve had such horrible experiences with mental health professionals. my experiences with that have ranged very widely, from actively bad to life-changingly good, although the latter still had a lot of limitations given the liberal framework through which the therapy occurred. i’ve also have the privilege of being (mostly) physically able throughout my life and having material and social support systems to back me up through difficult times. hoping for the best for you, comrade
Thank you but I have totally given up hoping for anything better. It’s such a struggle to get any kind of help in the UK - my disability is worsening over time rather than improving because the NHS is so crap, my physiotherapy sessions are so few and far between. It’s got to the stage that I’ve had two bad falls in the past two months, couldn’t get up, struggle to get dressed and put my own shoes on, my weak left side is always riddled with injuries and inflammation that makes it difficult to walk, my cancer treatment has left me exhausted and with all sorts of problems and I’ll spend the rest of my life constantly being reassessed for benefits and fighting benefit appeals. Nothing will ever get better. But having some sessions with a silly person telling me to write lists and draw pictures is supposed to cure this.
it’s really hard for me to experientially know where you’re coming from, and so i don’t exactly know what to say other than even if you’ve given up hope, i will still be hoping for you and thinking of you. i’ve definitely dealt with horrible medical care before, whether mental or physical, and especially when i was younger it all served to give me the impression that my health wasn’t valuable to society and, by extension, that my own life wasn’t valuable to society. but, even though i don’t know you i think you’re valuable and worth hoping for, even if the present and future look bleak.
My experience has been one psychotherapist (psychology background) and one psychiatrist. I felt much better with the psychologist, but he also had a lot of experience and was nearing the end of his career. But it was really helpful to me.
I originally went to see the psychiatrist to get a possible ADD/ADHD diagnosed and we took expensive tests and nothing came of it. They were like welp maybe you had adhd as a kid but you’re good today! Okay but what do I do now lol, cause I didn’t feel like I was okay?
We mostly did therapy and yeah it was not as good as what a psychologist provides. Psychiatrists have to elect for therapy classes in uni, it’s not quite the same. I stopped seeing them when it was getting too expensive and I felt comfortable enough. I went back to them after my PE and disability started cause I was under a lot of stress and I could tell it was entirely out of their comfort zone. She just didn’t know how to help me. It wasn’t all bad, she told me I could cancel at any time at no charge when she saw just how bad the symptoms were, but everything else was kind of… I felt like I just came over (at great difficulty), complained for a bit, then left not feeling any better.
You can tell psychiatrists are not as comfortable with therapy and don’t conduct it perfectly. At times she said stuff that made me think ‘??’. Like “so you see there’s no need to catastrophize” oh yeah you’re right mb I was just under a shitton of stress, went through a PE and then became disabled for some unknown reason, and coming to your appointments makes me puke on the side of the road every time and I’m dry heaving for 15 minutes but yeah sure I’m catastrophizing. She wasn’t entirely wrong, in the end the thing I was worrying over went well, but it’s just an out of place comment coming from a therapist.
Eventually I cancelled an appointment cause I was in a really bad spell and never called to reschedule. I’ve been looking for a psychologist but it’s tough when you can’t easily go to the appointments. Psychologists learn therapy as part of their classes so they’re better at it, though I guess it also depends on your therapist.
Also I don’t believe problems are solely caused by capitalism. It just doesn’t make sense. Our body is very much capable of betraying itself, stress being just one example.
